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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
were given a majority of the company's stock in exchange for almost $5 billion in wage and benefit concessions. The two cases are fascinating contrasts. Scott Paper's restructuring involved large-scale job reductions, while United's gave employees job security (and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
host country on knowledge inflows to the subsidiary depends on subsidiary knowledge stock. Our findings show that as knowledge stock at the subsidiary grows, it absorbs more knowledge from the host country compared to the HQ. We additionally provide a stylized case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
explanatory variables, controlling for player quality, total team salary, total number of players used by the team during the season (a proxy for team injuries over the course of a season), and team control... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
psychologists describe groundbreaking research from disparate work settings, and cross-cultural psychologists reveal the variety of ways that envy can emerge as a function of cultures as wide-ranging as the Japanese school system to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
control and the growth of professional management seen in the United States. That debate continues. But this book does report compelling research that shows that, historically, family ownership and management in many countries has been a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016
food security (a key national security priority) by extending its control of the global food system through overseas acquisitions. At the same time, COFCO sought to grow its market share in China's fiercely... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
auditor for both the financial and nonfinancial information contained in the integrated report, but these are covered by separate assurance opinions. Among the challenges of providing an integrated audit is getting the internal measurement and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Case 707-559 Describes the joint efforts of the German health plan KKH and Essen University Hospital to develop an integrated practice unit (IPU), and the West German Headache Center's efforts to improve the quality of migraine care. Provides an overview of the German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
interpersonally penalize seekers who disregard their advice, and that these reactions are especially strong among expert advisors. This penalty also drives advisor reactions to a widely recommended advice-seeking strategy: soliciting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
continued her double duty as professor and expert witness. And the arguments dragged on. A stunning revelation of hidden documents In 2010, almost two years into the case, the judge made a stunning announcement: After multiple discovery... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
2011. Setting/Participants: Participants included 4,642 employees of a large hospital in Boston, MA, who were regular cafeteria patrons. Interventions: The first intervention was a traffic-light style color-coded labeling system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
mouths have an opportunity to do something like Harley’s doing?” A prison conviction leads to multiple employment rejections After losing his father at age 15, Blakeman fell into hard drug use. After he was incarcerated in a Georgia... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small financial rewards, large financial rewards, and non-financial rewards,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex, ever-changing deal situations that occur in today's business environment. Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian fills that gap by examining complex deals where negotiators are fighting on multiple fronts—across the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Participation. He compared data for households that fell just above the SCHIP income eligibility threshold with those that fell just below it, before and after the program took effect. This mimicked the effect of experimental treatment and View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008
Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006
than forty high-profile moves and interviewed team leaders in multiple industries and countries to examine the risks and opportunities that lift outs present. They concluded that, regardless of industry, nationality, or size of the team,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
parties—shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, even the public—and often these duties can conflict. What enables a leader to wend his way through such a situation is a capacity for complexity, the ability to hold multiple... View Details